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The Met Launches blog.mode!

via Flavorpill:
   
Comme des Garçons by Junya Watanabe, Ensemble, fall/winter 2000–2001, Courtesy Metropolitan Museum of Art

blog.mode: addressing fashion

When: Tue Dec 18 - Sun Apr 13 (schedule)

Where: Metropolitan Museum of Art (1000 5th Ave, 212.535.7710)

Price: $20

Details: Event Info

Fashion is a relative newcomer to the reputable Metropolitan, but now the Upper East Side institution is stepping into the fracas of the fashion blogosphere. The museum is displaying 40 new acquisitions from its Costume Institute in blog.mode: addressing fashion, and — hold onto your chapeau — inviting the public to comment on the pieces through a blog on its website. While the armchair fug-sters do battle for most catty remark, the Met's sincere curators intersperse relevant art-historical commentary about such highlights as a 1983 black Comme des Garçons jersey dress and a 1947 Adrian piece featuring a Salvador Dalí design. While the high-class items are undoubtedly worthy of the Met's collection, it's the public dialogue that merits close scrutiny.

– H.G. Masters

via Artnet news, 12/19/07:

MET GETS INTO BLOG MODE
  While the average citizen "might shy away from commenting on the merits of a Juan Gris or a Henry Moore," notes Metropolitan Museum Fashion Institute curator Harold Koda, they have no such compunction when it comes to fashion. Thus, the Met’s first blog -- located at http://blog.metmuseum.org/blogmode/ -- invites the public to comment on the new exhibition in the Costume Institute galleries, a presentation of 65 recent acquisitions dubbed "blog.mode: addressing fashion," Dec. 18, 2007-Apr. 13, 2008. Comments can be registered at the Met's website, or on what is called a "blogbar" of eight computer terminals in the museum galleries. So far, remarks seem to be confined to "fabulous" and the like, though one contributor notes that 99 percent of the costumes in the show are for women, "reinforcing the idea that women are the peacocks and men should be looking on or not seen at all."

One of the many interesting items in the exhibition is the "Remote Control" Dress (2000) by Hussein Chalayan (b. 1970), a cast-plastic form with side and rear flaps that open to reveal pink tulle. According to Met curator Andrew Bolton, who co-organized the show, Chalayan is one of several contemporary designers who is beginning to issue his designs in limited editions in order to encourage collectors.
                

 

Best Unsolicited Submission Email Ever

via Personism (Jan Bekman's blog), 12/08/07:

Best Unsolicited Submission Email Ever

One of the forty-one (41) .jpgs I received along with the email message below.

Respectable gallery Responsible Officer: How Do You Do!

I am Chinese a Photographer, Very hope I could have show my PhotoForum in the Ethel gallery, I’ll give you my animatic, please Sexy-lady! Thank You!!!

RGDS Regards!

Salute!

Yours  sincerely  friend—WEI DU

I V Y Paris News: new favorite hub

 

check out:

I V Y Paris News: adventiures in Paris art, fashion and culture

I think I'm hooked. Here's their flickr page; here's their feed .

from their About page:

I V Y paris started life as 5 artists getting together to hold an exhibiton in late 2004 (a painter, sculptor, jewelry designer, photographer and Founder of I V Y paris, Susie Hollands, conceptual artist). Within 2 weeks of deciding we were holding a show we'd found a gallery space, rented it, painted and scrubbed it and sent out a quick email blast to those we'd hoped would come to the vernissage. We split the costs 5 ways to make things affordable. A few finishing touches to the work to be exposed and we were ready. Everyone did something; donated a sound system, brought the wine in a friend's car, painted, mopped, spoke the necessary French........et voila! It was great success. The space was packed on the opening night and first night sales covered over and above the cost of hiring the space. This proves that if you are motivated it's possible to hold an exhibition, even in Central Paris. It doesn't have to be a traditional white-cube type thing either – it can be in someone's home, under one of the bridges of the Seine, in a Park, or parking lot if you like.

I V Y paris at 25 rue Keller gallery, Bastille, Paris

Preparing to open and the last day, First show December 2004, Front foor smashes but makes new installation, December 2004, Concert with Air's Earl Harvin and Scrote March 2005, Group show March 2005

Other shows in Los Angeles and Paris

Paris:LA at Cache Contemporary August/September 2005
La Chapelle Saint Louis de la Salpêtrière May 2006
Group show at Carrousel du Louvre, October 2006
Group show at Carrousel du Louvre, October 2007

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LE CONCEPT DE I V Y paris

I V Y paris serves as a comprehensive hub for visual arts information and resources in Paris, nurturing our creative community through a series of art exhibitions and events. For those artists or art-curious already living in Paris, just passing through the “moveable feast,” as so many have done before them or dreaming about doing so one day, we hope I V Y paris will be an invaluable point of reference for you.

Painters, photographers, sculptors, conceptual artists, writers, musicians, performers, dancers, video artists, fashion designers - this group is open to everyone who wants to express themselves in some kind of creative fashion in Paris. It does not matter what discipline you are working in, what level you are at, if you have even started creating the work you wish to show - all you have to do is want to do it.

I V Y Paris is empowering emerging artists by providing information and events and helping them support and inspire each other. Meet other artists and designers, find out how to negotiate the Paris arts scene and source under-the-radar events. 

A global network for a global city; you can continue to participate if you live abroad or only have limited time in Paris.

See I V Y Paris events and photos from Danielle Voirin's atelier and other expositions, parties and get-togethers

I V Y paris started life as 5 artists getting together to hold an exhibiton in late 2004 (a painter, sculptor, jewelry designer, photographer and Founder of I V Y paris, Susie Hollands, conceptual artist). Within 2 weeks of deciding we were holding a show we'd found a gallery space, rented it, painted and scrubbed it and sent out a quick email blast to those we'd hoped would come to the vernissage. We split the costs 5 ways to make things affordable. A few finishing touches to the work to be exposed and we were ready. Everyone did something; donated a sound system, brought the wine in a friend's car, painted, mopped, spoke the necessary French........et voila! It was great success. The space was packed on the opening night and first night sales covered over and above the cost of hiring the space. This proves that if you are motivated it's possible to hold an exhibition, even in Central Paris. It doesn't have to be a traditional white-cube type thing either – it can be in someone's home, under one of the bridges of the Seine, in a Park, or parking lot if you like.

I V Y paris at 25 rue Keller gallery, Bastille, Paris

Preparing to open and the last day, First show December 2004, Front foor smashes but makes new installation, December 2004, Concert with Air's Earl Harvin and Scrote March 2005, Group show March 2005

Other shows in Los Angeles and Paris

Paris:LA at Cache Contemporary August/September 2005
La Chapelle Saint Louis de la Salpêtrière May 2006
Group show at Carrousel du Louvre, October 2006
Group show at Carrousel du Louvre, October 2007

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LE CONCEPT DE I V Y paris

I V Y paris serves as a comprehensive hub for visual arts information and resources in Paris, nurturing our creative community through a series of art exhibitions and events. For those artists or art-curious already living in Paris, just passing through the “moveable feast,” as so many have done before them or dreaming about doing so one day, we hope I V Y paris will be an invaluable point of reference for you.

Painters, photographers, sculptors, conceptual artists, writers, musicians, performers, dancers, video artists, fashion designers - this group is open to everyone who wants to express themselves in some kind of creative fashion in Paris. It does not matter what discipline you are working in, what level you are at, if you have even started creating the work you wish to show - all you have to do is want to do it.

I V Y Paris is empowering emerging artists by providing information and events and helping them support and inspire each other. Meet other artists and designers, find out how to negotiate the Paris arts scene and source under-the-radar events. 

A global network for a global city; you can continue to participate if you live abroad or only have limited time in Paris.

See I V Y Paris events and photos from Danielle Voirin's atelier and other expositions, parties and get-togethers

I V Y paris started life as 5 artists getting together to hold an exhibiton in late 2004 (a painter, sculptor, jewelry designer, photographer and Founder of I V Y paris, Susie Hollands, conceptual artist). Within 2 weeks of deciding we were holding a show we'd found a gallery space, rented it, painted and scrubbed it and sent out a quick email blast to those we'd hoped would come to the vernissage. We split the costs 5 ways to make things affordable. A few finishing touches to the work to be exposed and we were ready. Everyone did something; donated a sound system, brought the wine in a friend's car, painted, mopped, spoke the necessary French........et voila! It was great success. The space was packed on the opening night and first night sales covered over and above the cost of hiring the space. This proves that if you are motivated it's possible to hold an exhibition, even in Central Paris. It doesn't have to be a traditional white-cube type thing either – it can be in someone's home, under one of the bridges of the Seine, in a Park, or parking lot if you like.

I V Y paris at 25 rue Keller gallery, Bastille, Paris

Preparing to open and the last day, First show December 2004, Front foor smashes but makes new installation, December 2004, Concert with Air's Earl Harvin and Scrote March 2005, Group show March 2005

Other shows in Los Angeles and Paris

Paris:LA at Cache Contemporary August/September 2005
La Chapelle Saint Louis de la Salpêtrière May 2006
Group show at Carrousel du Louvre, October 2006
Group show at Carrousel du Louvre, October 2007

--------------------------------------------

LE CONCEPT DE I V Y paris

I V Y paris serves as a comprehensive hub for visual arts information and resources in Paris, nurturing our creative community through a series of art exhibitions and events. For those artists or art-curious already living in Paris, just passing through the “moveable feast,” as so many have done before them or dreaming about doing so one day, we hope I V Y paris will be an invaluable point of reference for you.

Painters, photographers, sculptors, conceptual artists, writers, musicians, performers, dancers, video artists, fashion designers - this group is open to everyone who wants to express themselves in some kind of creative fashion in Paris. It does not matter what discipline you are working in, what level you are at, if you have even started creating the work you wish to show - all you have to do is want to do it.

I V Y Paris is empowering emerging artists by providing information and events and helping them support and inspire each other. Meet other artists and designers, find out how to negotiate the Paris arts scene and source under-the-radar events. 

A global network for a global city; you can continue to participate if you live abroad or only have limited time in Paris.

See I V Y Paris events and photos from Danielle Voirin's atelier and other expositions, parties and get-togethers

The Blogger Show opening in NYC + elsewhere...

via Digging Pitt Gallery:

The Blogger Show

November 10, 2007 - January 12, 2008

Agni Gallery
170 East 2nd Street,
Storefront #3
New York, NY 10009
412-389-0288

Opening reception Saturday, November 3, 6-9PM

participating artists and their blogs

also:
@Digging Pitt Gallery - Reception: December 8, 6-9PM
@Digging Pitt Too - Reception: December 8, 6-9PM
@Panza Gallery - Reception: December 15, 6-9PM

In November, Digging Pitt (Pittsburgh PA) will begin a joint effort with Agni Gallery (New York, NY) and Panza Gallery (Millvale, PA) to present The Blogger Show. The exhibits showcase the work of over thirty artists whose common interest is in clarifying artistic discourse through their blogs. All of the exhibits will take place between November 3, 2007 and January 12, 2008. Preview the exhibits online at Fiji Island Mermaid Press, courtesy of Marc Snyder. Announcements about receptions and other special events are forthcoming, so watch your e-box. Stay current with The Blogger Show artists on the blog or join us at MySpace.

Tim O’Reilly defines…
Web 2.0 is the business revolution in the computer industry caused by the move to the internet as platform, and an attempt to understand the rules for success on that new platform. Chief among those rules is this: Build applications that harness network effects to get better the more people use them. (This is what I've elsewhere called "harnessing collective intelligence.")

Excerpt from Bill Gusky's article (Artblog Comments) Read more 
A number of artists have entered the blog arena, writing about art and the art world as they participate in it through their visual work. There have always been artists who write about art, and at times their writing has been highly influential; Donald Judd is one name that leaps to mind. As a new art narrative emerges, writers of all stripes – critics, historians, curators and even art bloggers -- will play a large part in shaping, interpreting and defining it.

This exhibition focuses on the work of artists who are active art blog writers. The work you see here emerged in the studio in near-simultaneity with the artist’s written expressions. These twin efforts – art making and blog writing -- sometimes appear to flow together and intertwine beautifully, and at other times almost seem to be in diametric opposition.                

The relationship between written word and the created artwork suggests the erratic flow of a culture in which propaganda freely mingles with news journalism and science is polluted with articles of faith. It seems at times that the only appropriate response to the apparent untrustworthiness of all our societal and cultural expressions is a schizophrenic call-and-response [...]

For more about the current state of the art blogger phenomenon, see Peter Plagens' article and round table in the November 07 issue of Art in America, with bloggers Regina Hackett (Art To Go), Tyler Green (Moder Art Notes), Jeff Jahn (PORT), Roberta Fallon & Libby Rosof (artblog), and Edward Winkleman (edward_winkleman): "Report From the Blogoshere" The New Grass Roots." Ironically, the article is not available online, since the AiA website does not offer access to any of its content. However, there is a discussion on Kriston Capps' Grammar.police.

NEWSgrist in Art in America

In this month's Art in America, Peter Plagens poses numerous questions to a round table of art bloggers hailing from different cities, in "Report from the Blogosphere: The New Grass Roots"; with comments from Regina Hackett (Art To Go), Tyler Green (Modern Art Notes), Jeff Jahn (PORT), Roberta Fallon & Libby Rosof (artblog), and Edward Winkleman (edward_winkleman). NEWSgrist gets some nice mentions up front and center:

PLAGENS: Tyler has cited Joy Garnett's NewsGrist blog as doing a great job of "placing art within a sociocultural and political context." What I see on NewsGrist is a magazinelike interspersing of short profiles, exhibition reviews, op-ed pieces on how other people are covering things, and Village Voice–like political takes. But what does Tyler's comment mean to you, and why are blogs in general better positioned than print to do what he describes?
[...]
PLAGENS: Why can't blogs go further, to the point where there's hardly any discernible difference between artist and critic/commentator, blog and work of art?

Winkleman: That's exactly what Joy Garnett is doing, in my opinion. She's collaging texts in a way that obscures the difference between artist and comentator, blog and work of art.